The following films are released through the American Cinematheques distribution
label "Vitagraph/American Cinematheque Presents

AUDITION

A film by Takashi Miike

SYNOPSIS: AUDITION (1999, Cinematheque Presents/Vitagraph Films,115 min.) has proven to be a box office and critical success in New York, the first US city
where it has opened. The New York Times just called it one of the best films of the
year. The story concerns a lonely, middle-aged widower (Ryo Ishibashi) who lost his wife
to cancer seven years prior. A friend convinces him to use his video production company to
hold mock auditions for a nonexistent film project in an effort to meet women. The decent
Aoyoma is initially reluctant to engage in such a deception, but finally he agrees and
subsequently, meets a beautiful former ballerina (Eihi Shiina) with a mysterious past. The
two begin a romance. While on the surface, Asami seems like an innocent and submissive
woman, her nature changes when Aoyoma mentions his deceased wife. In the blink of an eye,
a tender romance morphs into a shocking, gothic psycho-thriller. In Japanese with
English subtitles.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM:

"UNFORGETTABLE! A GREAT, sick rush with a kicker on the level of THE
VANISHING!" -- Elvis Mitchell, NY Times

"The kinkiest, creepiest, most pungently sexual horror film in recent
memory!" -- The Guardian (London)

"Japans hottest director!" -- A.
Musetto, NY Post

"ONE OF THE YEARS BEST FILMS! Dazzling. razor-sharp wit....what it must have
been like to see PSYCHOs shower scene back in 1960. BRILLIANT, UNFORGETTABLE!"
-- Mike DAngelo, Time Out New York

RELEASE SCHEDULE:

AUDITION is currently being booked at theatres nationwide. To date, bookings include:

S. CALIFORNIA: LOS ANGELES: LA Premiere at American Cinematheque at the Egyptian as
part of the Japanese Outlaw Masters series (Nov.); NuART (11/16)

ILLINOIS: Chicago (11/30 -- Century 5)

OREGON: Portland (10/26  Cinema 21)

MASS.: Cambridge (Oct.  The Brattle)

Screeners, photos (b/w & color) and press kits for AUDITION are available upon
request. The film is in Japanese w/ English subtitles. A theatrical press screening may be
set up. Let us know if you wish to be alerted to a screening date and time.

Synopsis: When a woman looses her baby to Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS),
she finds herself in uncharted territory  and must find a way to grieve or descend
into madness. This film was an official selection of the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

Angie (Australian actress RADHA MITCHELL (HIGH ART, PITCH BLACK) in an
unflinchingly honest performance) and Russ (JUSTIN LOUIS), a young, well-off,
loving, suburban couple, eagerly await the birth of their first child. Angies
friends (Catherine Lloyd Burns of "Malcolm in the Middle" and Megan
Mullally of "Will and Grace") are also pregnant and together their worlds
revolve around babies, husbands and the rituals of family life. When an unexpected tragedy
befalls Angie and Russ, the community that they were once integrally involved in begins to
disappear. Their fair-weather friends, unable to find a way to console, or share the
couples grief, simply withdraw. As Angies grief begins to drive her to act out
in strange and frightening ways, the film echoes the terror of Polanskis
ROSEMARYS BABY. It is also reminiscent of Todd Haynes SAFE in its depiction of
an alienated woman adrift in a hostile, suffocating suburban environment, that once
offered a bounty of security and comfort. "Roberto Schaefers cinematography
is a masterwork of telling compositions: His framings, some askew and some straight on,
point us to the fullest story dimensions and character depths." (Hollywood
Reporter) This amazing, complex film is packed with human emotion  something so
absent in films today. Shot on Digital Video, the film will be projected in a 35mm print.
Produced by Sean Furst. Written by Adam Forgash, Catherine Lloyd Burns and Mark Forster.
Director/Co-Writer Mark Forster Forester (LOUNGERS, Winner of the Audience Award at the
1996 Slamdance Film Festival).

EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER has been lauded by critics. In March 2001 director Marc
Forester won the prestigious Independent Spirit Award for "New Director to
Watch," not to mention the Sony/AFI DV-Cam award for best fiction feature.

EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER's unique look takes the concept of digital video photography to
a whole new perspective on what digital photography can be. It has been hailed as the
first American film to rival Dogma 95, putting it in league with the highly praised and
celebrated work of Danish master directors Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. Interview
magazine's Graham Fuller put EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER on his list of the ten best
unreleased films.

EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER will be the first new American independent feature film
distributed theatrically in the US by American Cinematheque Presents and Vitagraph Films.
This film was selected to debut this new distribution entity, for its innovative story and
cinematography and incredible critical acclaim.

Director Mark Foresters latest film, MONSTERS BALL, starring Billy Bob Thornton,
Wes Bentley and Halle Berry, is slated for release by Lions Gate in December 2001.
Actress Radha Mitchell will be seen in Joel Shumacher's PHONE BOOTH starring opposite
Collin Ferrell, also due to be released late this year.

RELEASE SCHEDULE:

EVERYTHING
PUT TOGETHER is currently being booked at theatres nationwide. More dates to be announced
as they are confirmed. To date, bookings include: Los Angeles (Laemmle Monica, 11/2;
Egyptian Hollywood, 11/16); NYC Cinema Village (11/9); Portland, OR (11/30); Seattle Grand
Illusion; The Brattle Boston/Cambridge (11/30-12/2); San Francisco (Landmark or Red Vic
Jan.); Music Box, Chicago (1/14); The Dobie, Austin, TX (12/28).

To date, Vitagraph Films has acquired rights to four Japanese genre films that were
well received at American Cinematheque screenings in its popular Japanese Outlaw Masters
series. Although made some 30 years ago, none of these films had ever been released in the
US, nor had they been available on video. Partnering with Image Entertainment, Vitagraph
distributed these four titles (a fifth is on its way this year) on DVD and home video in
2000 and booked the films theatrically in New York, San Francisco & Boston.

Theatrically Vitagraph/American Cinematheque Presents has re-released the
legendary, but virtually unseen in the US, psychedelic, 60's relic, WONDERWALL (directed
by THE SONG REMAINS THE SAME director Joe Massot) featuring a re-mastered, original score
by then Beatle George Harrison as well as the John Carpenter cult horror favorite
HALLOWEEN. In Summer 2001 Vitagraph re-released QUADROPHENIA based on the WHOs
classic album, in connection with Rhino Entertainment. AUDITION, WISCONSIN DEATH TRIP and
EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER are being booked theatrically in theatres for Fall 2001 and Winter
2002.

For further information about Vitagraph Films please contact President, David Shultz at
323.461.2020, ext. 123.